Abominable fancy explained

The term "abominable fancy" was first used by Frederic Farrar for the long-standing Christian idea that the eternal punishment of the damned in Hell entertains the saved in Heaven.^[1] According to Philip C. Almond, this view was held by several Christian philosophers, including Augustine, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas and Peter Lombard.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment. Walker DP. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964
2. Philip C. Almond, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England, p.97.
3. Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction, p.204. .